Wildlife
Monogamous animals partner up with a single mate, sometimes for the duration of a breeding season and less commonly over multiple seasons and years. Monogamy has particular advantages, and is often the chosen strategy where young are more vulnerable and require both parents for protection and feeding. In serial monogamy, having different partners each season helps maintain genetic diversity.
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Home and away
Small dik-diks pair up for life while larger impala have open relationships.
Small dik-diks pair up for life while larger impala have open relationships.
Symbol of fidelity
Sarus cranes dance and display to their partners.
Sarus cranes dance and display to their partners.
Lifelong mates
Monogamous shingleback skinks give birth rather than laying eggs.
Monogamous shingleback skinks give birth rather than laying eggs.
Changing times
Usually polygynous seals are opting for the quiet life.
Usually polygynous seals are opting for the quiet life.
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Rufous elephant shrew
African wild dog
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Giant river otter
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Plateau pika
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Agile gibbon
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Human
Indri
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Patagonian mara
Star-nosed mole
Black-throated diver
Great northern diver
Greater flamingo
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Emperor penguin
Gentoo penguin
Humboldt penguin
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Bewick's swan
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Goldeneye
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Swans
Whooper swan
Nightjar
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Pigeons and doves
Turtle dove
Turtle doves
Kagu
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Coot
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Siberian crane
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North Island brown kiwi
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Tawny owl
Burrowing parrot
Little corella
Ring-necked parakeet
Spix's macaw
Cape gannet
Northern gannet
Socotra cormorant
Bearded tit
Blackbird
Blackcap
Carrion crow
Coal tit
Common crossbill
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Dipper
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Rook
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Skylark
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Stonechat
Swallow
Wren
Arctic skua
Arctic tern
Avocet
Great black-backed gull
Guillemot
Herring gull
Kittiwake
Lapwing
Lesser black-backed gull
Oystercatcher
Puffin
South polar skua
Stone curlew
Little egret
Wood stork
Common swift
Fulmar
Galápagos petrel
Manx shearwater
Shearwaters
Snow petrel
Wandering albatross
Waved albatrossMonogamous pairing in animals refers to the natural history of mating systems in which species pair bond to raise offspring. This is associated, usually implicitly, with sexual monogamy[citation needed].
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